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Is McCain Aide Mark Salter the Author of Anonymously Penned Obama Novel?
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyWith a terse, three-word explanation -- "confirmed by sources" -- Mark Halperin at Time has identified Mark Salter as the author of "O: A Presidential Novel," the book released earlier this month by Simon & Schuster. Halperin is well-connected and an intrepid reporter. Salter is widely known in Washington as a longtime Capitol Hill aide, speechwriter, and confidant to Sen. John McCain, as well as a collaborator on McCain's acclaimed biographical books. Those works, especially "Faith of My Fathers," are evocatively written -- there is a reason they are runaway best sellers -- but they are ...
Meet Mark Salter, the Man Who Might Be the Mysterious Author of 'O: A Presidential Novel'
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsSo much for that Washington parlor game. The new anonymously written book "O: A Presidential Novel," a fictionalized tale of the 2008 presidential campaign, earned most of its buzz because of the whodunnit aspect. As Politics Daily put it last week, "though reviews so far are tepid, the undisclosed identity of the novelist has captured the short attention span of the political press." But Time magazine's Mark Halperin claims that he has solved the case. Anonymous, he says, is none other than Mark Salter. Among the clues: "There is a story early in the book based on a real-life tale that ...
McCain's 2000 Vote
By Dave - Politics DailyWho did John and Cindy McCain vote for in 2000? Arianna Huffington says it wasn't George Bush: Original Post: At a dinner party in Los Angeles not long after the 2000 election, I was talking to a man and his wife, both prominent Republicans. The conversation soon turned to the new president. "I didn't vote for George Bush" the man confessed. "I didn't either," his wife added. Their names: John and Cindy McCain (Cindy told me she had cast a write-in vote for her husband). The fact that this man was so angry at what George Bush had done to him, and at what Bush represented for their party, that ...
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